Wall.



M. B. ENSMINGER & J. W. SHAFFER.

WALL.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8, 1909.

Patented Feb. 15, 1910.

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' 3 cut away at opposite edges 4 and 5. so that where a strip is disposed in a mortise formed hold the wooden strip 6 plaster-board or laths, without it being in' blocks 1 it projects UNKTED 2TATE KEEN? @FEEQE.

MEREDITH BADY ENSMINGER AND JOSEPH WILLIAM SHAFFER, 0F FOSTGBIIA, OHIO.

WALL.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MEREDITH B. Ens- :amcnn and JOSEPH W. 'SHAFFER, citizens of the United States, and residents of Fostoria, inthe county of Seneca-and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Walls, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to improvements in walls, and it has for its object to provide a construction whereby there is an air space between the blocks forming the wall and the necessary to veneer the blocks.

In this specification we will describe the preferred form of our invention, it being understood that the scope of the invention is defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, inwhich similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both Figure 1 is a perspective view showing'a portion of a wall with one'of the wooden strips in position; and Fig. 2 is a view showing one of the wooden'strips.

By referring to the drawings it will be seen that the wall is constructed of a plurality of cement or concrete blocksl, which preferably have openings 2 therethrough to make them as light as possible. Each of these blocks 1 has a portion of its inner face the upper cutaway portlons of one of the blocks 1 registerswith the lower cut-away portion of another block 1 forming a mortise in which a wooden strip 6 is disposed. This wooden strip 6 has a groove 7 cut longitudinally along its upper face so that by the cut-away portions in adjoining blocks,

and cementis disposed in the groove it will in position rela- 1 tively to the blocks 1. When the wooden l strip 6 is disposed in one of the mortises formed by the cut-away, ortions of adjoineyond the face 3 o the blocks so that when plaster-board or Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Fee lit. 15, 191th Application filed. June 8, 1909. Serial No. 500,875.

laths are secured to the wooden strips 6 they will be disposed at a distance from the face 3 of the blocks forming an air space between the plasterboard or laths and the blocks forming the body of the wall. I

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a wall, blocks, each of the blocks having cut-away portions at opposite longitudinal edges so that the cut-away portions will form inortises extending to one face of the wall when the blocks are disposed one over the other, strips of material disposed in the mortiscs, the strips of material extendin beyond the face of the wall and beinga apted to support laths or plasterboard, there being longitudinal grooves in the strips of material and cement disposed in the longitudinal grooves to hold the strips of material in position.

2. In a wall, blocks, each of the blocks having one of its edges cut away so that the cut away portions o f neighboring blocks will form mortises extending through one face of the wall, when the blocks are disposed a ainst each other, and stripsof material there being grooves one set of the said between the strips dlsposed in the mortises, curved in cross section in members holding cement and the blocks.

3. In a wall, blocks, each of the blocks es cut away so that the neighboring blocks will h one having one of its ed cut away portions 0 form mortises extending throu in the mortises, there being grooves tapering in cross section in one set of the said members holding cement between the strips and the blocks.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MEREDITH BADY ENSMINGER. JOSEPH WILLIAM SHAFFER.

Witnesses:

J HN Banner,

. GEORG BHAFFEB.

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